For shotguns with removeable barrels, the code will be valid for the manufacture of the barrel maybe for the receiver, as barrels do get switched around.Īccording to the 'Blue Book of Gun Values', the coding continues as follows:ī - L - A - C - K - P - O - W - D - E - R - Xġ - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 Remington Year of Manufacture Codes maybe found on the barrel of your Remington rifle on the left side, just forward of the receiver the first letter of the Code is the month of manufacture, followed by one or two letters which are the year of manufacture. Every thing I find pertains to the date codes on the barrels, not the serial number on the receiver. And the F again being an assembly number.Hi again.that is a good question. Here the first (LH) mark is the final inspector mark, the O represents July, the R would be 1968. The fourth digit being a 3 is inconsequential being an assembly number. Here the R represents November, & the ZZ would be 1953. The one on the right again a 30-06, but with a shorter barrel that I made into a knock around quad rifle with pivot mounts. This has been rebored to a 35 Whelen Improved. Both were taken off Remington 760s, with the one on the left, a 30-06 that I bought new October 10, 1954. The factory says all barrels are date code stamped, well I have found some that are not, or if they are, are so erratic stamping that trying to decipher them is impossible.

The above information was taken from Remington's own information sheet, so if your gun may not conform, then I am also at a loss in explaining. The anchor shown here with the date code is just a symbol, as many different inspector marks will be seen With the whole list shown here ONLY if it had been returned for repairs Stamped on LH top rear of barrel, 2 or 3 digit, (month first, year after) these will normally only be the last letters as seen below, Then if the gun is ever subsequently returned to a warranty center or the factory by ANYONE, they will refuse to work on it as an unsafe firearm. If a gun is returned to the factory as a fire damaged, or blown up firearm, the factory will stamp it as a prefix to their date code with a #4 on the barrel and return it un-repaired.

Remington 700 serial number date code